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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 243 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (34 children)

Recently had an argument with my conservative father, he's always been big into Trek and Wars, and I had just started really watching Trek again, never watched a lot of the shows all the way through. So this father of mine started going on about how woke Trek was now, and I just lost it on him, I just get so tired of the "anti-woke" nonsense and he just finds some way to insert it into every conversation. So I was like "oh no, not woke Star Trek, the series about a socialist utopia, the series that holds the title of "the American show with the first interracial kiss", the show where Kirk throws his dick at every species with a quim, the show that had a Ruskie character in the middle of the f'n Red Scare." Star Trek was always woke, and my father was always too dumb, racially biased, and narcissistic to pick up on the lessons that they were trying to teach us when he watched it as a child in the 60's.

I have not even tried to bring up Star Wars since the Disney acquisition, I'm sure my father has an insufferable take on that series now as well.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 148 points 10 months ago (25 children)

I have met conservative Trek fans. I think some people really do watch stuff without ever thinking about it beyond its superficial spectacle.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

There are a surprisingly high number of educated conservatives in the high tech fields, engineers/programmers/etc.

It's sad :/

[–] Lintson@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Fear and prejudice transcends all education.

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